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Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-01-26
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalArt / History / Romanticism
ISBN03077732729780307773272
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ykubOZRW9tcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the instant stardom achieved with the publication ofChilde Harold's Pilgrimage; his passionate and destructive love affairs, including an incestuous liaison with his half-sister; and finally his tragic death in the cause of Greek independence. This magnificent record of a towering figure is sure to become the new standard biography of Byron.